The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 17, 2005

MPEDA plea to eat more fish
AMIDST apprehensions among fish consumers regarding the quality of fish after the tsunami onslaught and reports that fish consumption has come down, MPEDA has come out with a campaign `consume more fish and help the fishing community'. In a ... More

Seafood exports may decline 30 pc
SEAFOOD exports from India may decline by as much as 30 per cent, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said in an assessment report on the impact of tsunami in South-East Asian region. Fishermen living along the 1,000-km of Indian ... More

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES

Covai flower show put off
COIMBATORE: Citing tsunami catastrophe, the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has decided to postpone the Covai Flower Show 2005, scheduled for January 29 and 30 to a later date. The TNAU Vice-Chancellor, Dr C. Ramaswamy, was ... More

TEA

Darjeeling tea belt to be designated as AEZ
Once transformed into an AEZ, Darjeeling tea sector would directly come under the ambit of APEDA. More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

Downward correction likely
NYCE cotton futures finished modestly lower in thin volumes ahead of a holiday weekend. Speculative buying lifted fibre contracts to a two-and-half-month peak recently, which was more of a technically inspired rally although the broad ... More

FOODGRAINS

Grain exporters apathetic to proposed subsidy
EVEN as the Union Cabinet is slated to clear a new foodgrain export policy that would provide `WTO-compatible' export subsidy of up to Rs 900 per tonne, the private trade is not particularly enthusiastic about the proposal. The proposal ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS

Upward trend in cardamom continues
CARDAMOM prices continued to maintain the upward trend in auction sales at major centres in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Upcountry buyers were active to cover the demand in North Indian markets. They are said to have exhausted their inventories. ... More

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